National Mall Shooting: Secret Service agents on Monday exchanged gunfire with a man near the Washington Monument, hitting a ...

Cook County saw little population change in 2025 due to reduced international immigration, new U.S. census numbers show, but Kendall County bucked that nationwide trend with the greatest percentage ...

The frustration Cook County homeowners feel about rising property taxes came out loud and clear in Tuesday’s race for county assessor — losing incumbent Fritz Kaegi performed the poorest in areas of ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk is warning people about an ongoing text scam with fake alerts about traffic violations. The messages say you owe parking fines, or toll fines, and ask ...

Cook County officials are warning residents to be weary of a circulating text message scam that falsely claims to require payment for unpaid charges. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Mariyana ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi conceded to challenger Pat Hynes on Tuesday night. Hynes' children came out and introduced him when he took the stage in an electric room. He told his ...

Races for Cook County Board president and assessor as well as a few county board races in Lake County are among the local races to watch in Tuesday’s primary elections. The hotly contested Democratic ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections contacted all county jails in the state Monday to ...

Incumbents in two Cook County races often overshadowed by other political contests that nonetheless sway Chicago real estate markets are facing tough competition in the March 17 Democratic primary, ...

The company behind delays in Cook County property tax bills and refunds has sent a letter to Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, refusing to work directly with her any longer, accusing her of using ...

The Democratic primary race for Cook County assessor comes at a fraught time, when residential property tax bills are rising fastest in predominantly Black neighborhoods on the South and West sides.